The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.